A look at AIM's Terms of Service

[Gryph]

After that article was published AOL PR struck back: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/blog/3082956

 

In a subsequent phone conversation, Weinstein said that AOL does not monitor AIM traffic, and does not store it. A record of an AIM communication is not saved in any storage medium at AOL, he said.

 

"AOL does not read person-to-person communications," he said flatly.

[taratata]

You guys don't need to freak out for your personal conversations. Sending the source code of a highly valuable program through AIM could prove to be a very unwise move, though. Or any other intellectual work that can be valuable.

If I understood right, that'd be like giving all copyrights on that to AOL.

[Dooz]

I'll now be sure to add in every AIM convo of mine the words, "Steve Case makes love to horses."

[L.S.D]

What is AIM or AOL??

[Alpha]

What is AIM or AOL??   

 

AOL = America Online (ISP)

AIM = AOL Instant Messenger

[L.S.D]

What is AIM or AOL??   

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AOL = America Online (ISP)

AIM = AOL Instant Messenger

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GC, I know. I am just indicating I never use AIM or AOL service in my life anyway

[James]

Hhmm Oh well I will still use AIM Its better than MSN for file transfer.

[Agozer]

Hhmm Oh well I will still use AIM Its better than MSN for file transfer.

I'm not letting it go either. Most of you guys are on AIM anyway.

[Daeval]

Mozilla needs to make an instant messaging program with the same philosophies used on firefox and thunderbird. Full-featured, but simple and efficient, with a small footprint and low overhead, and infinetly and easily modifyable through plugins. For that matter, they need to make an mp3 player too, winamp is turning into bloatware.

[Lucandrake]

FireFox is awsome, havent had a single problem with it yet, I downloaded it a month ago and it's better then IE most deffentetly, but , if they made a IM service to compete against today's , do you think it'll actually go far? Enough people I know on aim are ignorent enough

[Wizard]

Mozilla needs to make an instant messaging program with the same philosophies used on firefox and thunderbird.  Full-featured, but simple and efficient, with a small footprint and low overhead, and infinetly and easily modifyable through plugins.  For that matter, they need to make an mp3 player too, winamp is turning into bloatware.

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Foobar2000. If you are starting to dislike winamp.

[taratata]

Mozilla needs to make an instant messaging program with the same philosophies used on firefox and thunderbird.  Full-featured, but simple and efficient, with a small footprint and low overhead, and infinetly and easily modifyable through plugins.  For that matter, they need to make an mp3 player too, winamp is turning into bloatware.

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Foobar2000. If you are starting to dislike winamp.

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I've used it for more than a year, and it works really great. I haven't used WinAmp for a very long time.

[Agozer]

Mozilla needs to make an instant messaging program with the same philosophies used on firefox and thunderbird.  Full-featured, but simple and efficient, with a small footprint and low overhead, and infinetly and easily modifyable through plugins.  For that matter, they need to make an mp3 player too, winamp is turning into bloatware.

Foobar2000. If you are starting to dislike winamp.

I've used it for more than a year, and it works really great. I haven't used WinAmp for a very long time.

The only thing that prefvents me from switching over to Foobar2000 is because it's SPC part lacks features that SNESAmp has.

[Gryph]

Due to the recent commotion over this AOL is going to make a few changes to their TOS.

 

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1776146,00.asp

 

The modifications will use similar language from the AIM privacy policy to "make it clear that AOL does not read private user-to-user communications," Weinstein said.

 

"We'll be adding that to the beginning of the section to make it clear that the privacy rights discussed in that section only refer to content posted to public areas of the AIM service.

 

I installed FooBar...it's not bad but I love my System Shock 2 Winamp skin. Plus I have my playlists set up really weird so FooBar can't read them properly.